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Upgrade – and an interesting surprise

Patchset 11.2.0.2 is out there for a long, looong time. But still Roy and me – and unfortunately our customers – sometimes experience some nice surprises after upgrade.

Roy did work on the weekend with a financial institution customer in the US to support them during their go-live on Oracle 11.2.0.2 with several systems. It was well tested and long planned. And overall the whole process went well except for one database (see Roy’s entry below on the change with JOB_QUEUE_PROCESSES in 11.2.0.2).

Yesterday I’ve received a text message from Roy to have a closer look into a service request …

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